molly.com
Monday 16 August 2004
best joke, a redesign and damnit where’s the music?
I need a sideblog, but in the meantime:
- The best joke today.
- Dave redesigned.
- I need music suggestions please, please.
I really am hungry for new music.
Filed under: blogging, humor, music, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 18:55 | Comments (32)
What kind of new music?
Indeed, what kind?
If I knew, I’d say. In the meantime, tell me what you love.
I love Guided By Voices…”Do the Collapse” is a pretty solid album. Other great favorite bands, The Beta Band, Stereolab, Morphine, The Jayhawks, and Camper Van Beethoven.
Two suggestions: Over the Rhine and Patty Griffin. Both tinged a bit with my side of the Judeo-Christian ethos to be sure, but also just plain good art. Both available at Paste Music, one of my favorite places to find independent stuff.
Suggestions for each … Good Dog, Bad Dog from OtR, and … hmmmm, either Living with Ghosts or Impossible Dream by Patty.
I am in love with Shack and yes, the site uses a flash pop up window with a very non-intuitive ‘click to enter site’ button. But the music is great.
And I’ve been rediscovering DEVO for some strange reason.
molly, music (for robots) is the answer to all musical problems.
there was even a NYTimes article about us today.
I listen to Japanese and Chinese music, although I don’t understand. ^_^ If you watch anime, you can start with their OST. I recommend Gundam Seed.
Randomly:
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Cowboy Bebop Movie OST
OKGo
Sloan
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I found Yahoo Launch is actually pretty effective in introducing me to new things related to the stuff I like.
Patty Griffin and “A Kiss in Time” is her live CD and a great starting place.
Dream Theater. Awesome band with some awesome musicians.
Some specific songs: Home, A Change of Seasons, and Learning to Live.
KMFDM – MDFMK, The Crystal Method – Vegas, Beth Hart – Screamin’ for My Supper, Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction, Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes, Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting and/or Mexican Moon, Marylin Manson – Holywood, Disturbed – just about anything.
Just a few suggestions.
Some recommendations from the electronica/chill cabinet:
Delerium – Chimera
Balligomingo – Beneath the Surface
Paul Schwartz – State of Grace II
Conjure One – Conjure One
Hybrid – Wide Angle
…and, from an entirely different genre: Mike Oldfield – Amarok.
Did you ask Bryan H? He’s the Music Man.
A randomly-created just-in-time top 10, just for you:
Low, Things We Lost In The Fire
Skeleton Key, Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon
Sunset Valley, Boyscout Superhero
Hush Hush, Young Days
A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder
M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Acetone, Acetone
Rilo Kiley, The Execution OF All Things
20 Minute Loop, Decline of Day
The Raymond Brake, Piles of Dirty Winters
Robert Wyatt: either “Schleep” or “Cuckooland”.
Check out this lovely bloke here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/robert-wyatt.shtml
I’m currently in lounge/jazz phase:
Pat Metheny
interactive-music.be
- ‘Lounge 1′ CD is especialy easy, just to name a few:
– give me the night, randy crawford
– may it be, enya
– into the west, annie lennox
Some personal favorites include anything by Nitin Sawhney, Faithless and Underworld. But I also want to second Andrew Green on his picks for Delerium, Conjure One and Hybrid.
Kasey Chambers. You don’t have to like country. In fact, it may help if you don’t.
I’ve been on a major Franz Ferdinand kick since a friend of mine played the album for me a couple months ago. Total throwback to the great Post-Punk years of the early 80s. If you like them, also check out Interpol (who were the next big thing a year or so ago).
Thoughts on other people’s suggestions:
Guided By Voices are awesome, but I thought “Do The Collapse” was pretty bad – “Isolation Drills” is one of their better newer albums.
The Beta Band “Three EPs” if you haven’t played it to death yet.
Stereolab “Emperor Tomato Ketchup” is a must own.
Sloan – everything they’ve ever done, starting with “Navy Blues”
Low “Things We Lost In The Fire” – sheer brilliance, and I also love their latest “Trust”
Skeleton Key “Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon” – one of the most unique albums I’ve ever heard, and a great live band
Hopes that helps.
I recommend Rachael Yamagata. Or the Streets. Depends on your preference.
You can’t go wrong with Rufus Wainwright. The new one is good (“Want One”) but “Poses” is my favorite. Like a cross between Jackson Browne and Verdi.
Alabama 3: Exile on Coldharbour Lane, La Peste, Power in the Blood (unique stuff; think ‘Honky Tonk Woman’-era Stones remixed by Armand Van Helden with lyrics by Hunter S. Thompson and vocals by Leonard Cohen and you might be kinda close)
Steve Earle: Transcendental Blues, Jerusalem, Copperhead Road (authentic country/rock that used to pop up on AOR/alternative formats before ClearChannel owned everything; perhaps the best songwriter Nashville has offered up in the last 30 years)
R.L. Burnside: Come On In, A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey, almost anything else (180-proof delta blues from a veteran for the most part, remixed with rap artists on Come On and served up with the John Spencer Blues Explosion on Ass Pocket)
Boom Boom Satellites: Out Loud (Japanese techno band that weaves in classical, blues, jazz and metal; nowhere near as disjointed as it sounds, but definitely not something you’d get from a ‘western’ band; uniquely beautiful stuff)
Izzy Straddlin: 117 Degrees, Izzy Straddlin and the JuJu Hounds (nothing fancy, just good ol’ fashioned rock’n'roll; credibly covers both Robert Johnson & the Clash, if you can believe the former rhythm guitarist from Guns ‘N’ Roses is capable of such a thing; in truth he was by far their most talented songwriter, but his solo records won’t much remind you of them)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: anything (not exactly ‘new’, but I just got into them a year ago; kinda like the B-52s in a ‘roid rage)
Ian Moore: Modern Day Folklore (‘Muddy Jesus’ is fantastic, but the whole album is credible classic gee-tar blues in the Stevie Ray Vaughan sense of the term)
Also, if you’re not familiar with Warren Zevon beyond ‘Werewolves of London’, his catalogue is worth a look. Absolutely fantastic lyricist and solid songwriting all-round. Likewise Leonard Cohen, especially his The Future album.
Oh, forgot a few:
Fluke: Risotto (again, not really that ‘new’ but terriffic nevertheless; techno/dance kinda stuff, not entirely unlike Daft Punk — who’re also worth a look if you haven’t done already)
Cosmic Psychos: Oh What A Lovely Pie (‘bulldozer punk’ from AU; definitely high-testosterone stuff, but with a wry wit that belies the aggro)
Nashville Pussy: any (Motorhead + Joan Jett + Lynyrd Skynyrd = 20-car pile-up of a band: horrible, but fascinating in a disturbing sort of way)
I’ll also second both Crystal Method and KMFDM, but don’t limit yourself to just the albums listed. I haven’t heard too much from the former I didn’t like (the remix of ‘Trip Like I Do’ they did with Filter for the Spawn soundtrack is especially good) and pretty much everything KMFDM did after 1988 or so is terrific. The older stuff isn’t bad, but it’s more the spartan Skinny Puppy variety of industrial, which isn’t so much to my taste.
I’ve also been listening to MP3s from Captain Paranoid quite a bit as well. The recordings are bloody awful, but the music comes through nevertheless. Kinda R’N'B-era Stones sorta stuff, but not really. Brilliant live. Lotsa drug references in the lyrics, but not as overt as Alabama 3 or Thrill Kill Kult. I just saw them in London where he was opening for the Larry Love Show band (Alabama 3’s singer’s acoustic act; more or less the stuff from Alabama 3’s Last Train To Mashville), and the good Captain assured me he’s working up a ‘real’ record Real Soon Now.
Oh, last thing: Alabama 3 is the band that did the theme to The Sopranos. That song, ‘Woke Up This Morning’, is on Exile but La Peste is probably the record closest to that sound. The other two have much more range, though I have to admit La Peste is my fave.
I’d recommend a local Danish band called Luke.
Check out their site at http://www.luke.dk for samples of their music.
I’ve just discovered 3hive, a great way to sample all sorts of music you’d not normally come across.
hey molly, e.mail me a postal address and i’ll send you a cd of (slightly better quality) captain paranoid music, is patty griffin
patty griffiths? i got an amazing cover of stolen car by her.have
you heard that track? cx
good heavens. this is an old request, but here are some possibilities for you:
juliana hatfield
wilco
led zeppelin
neil finn
neil young
pearl jam
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